Sentences with phrase «stakes accountability era»

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In a 2009 study, the Center for Public Education released Teaching the Teachers: Effective Professional Development in an Era of High Stakes Accountability, a national research report indicating that «most professional development today is ineffective.»

Test - based accountability proponents can point to research by Raj Chetty and colleagues that shows a connection between improvements in test scores and improved outcomes in adulthood, but their work examines testing from the 1980s, prior to the high - stakes era, and therefore does not capture how the threat of consequences might distort the relationship between test - score changes and later life outcomes.

For example, today, we are transitioning out of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era of high - stakes accountability and saying hello again to continuous improvement — but with a twist.

In an era of high stakes accountability, testing, and standardization in education, Dr. Robert Dillon attempts to bring the student back into the center of the learning.

Today's schools must serve an increasingly diverse student body in an era of high - stakes accountability with rigorous standards, utilizing technology that is expanding exponentially while preparing students to be ready for jobs that haven't been invented.

Vulnerability is essential for creating a space for change, yet in an era of high - stakes, data - driven accountability, it is deeply counter-cultural and more often punished than rewarded.

In this era of increasing accountability and high - stakes testing in schools, a serious paradox has surfaced.

After more than a decade of test - driven, high - stakes accountability in the No Child Left Behind era, many educators and policymakers in the United States are looking to move toward a more thoughtful approach.

Rationale Attracting, retaining, and developing quality teachers is essential in the current era of high - stakes accountability.

If we let current policies answer this question for us, we're back to test scores; after all, nothing else matters in an era of high - stakes accountability.

(The paper, though, did not look at new teachers in the current era of revamped teacher evaluations — a form of more individualized accountability and higher stakes.)

In this era of high - stakes accountability, the pressure has never been greater for principals to excel also as instructional leaders.

Teaching the teachers: Effective professional development in an era of high stakes accountability.

Since the era of high - stakes accountability initiated in the early 1980s has not, in fact, closed the achievement gap, can you commit to ending accountability - based education reform, including a significant reduction in high - stakes testing, and then detail reform based on equity of opportunities for all students?

In the era of high - stakes national, state and local accountability, and with the advent of common core standards and NCLB, teachers across the nation face the daunting task of ensuring mastery of increasingly rigorous learning standards in increasingly diverse classrooms.

For all its good intentions, NCLB will be remembered for ushering in an unprecedented era of high - stakes testing — and for saddling public education with a federal mandate on school accountability that had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

Yet, we march on in the high stakes test - based accountability era with the high probability that posterity will ask an indicting question of how a generation of educators could commit such offenses when they knew better.

History will tell the story about the future of the high stakes test - based accountability era and its unintended consequences.

Newly designed schools have the advantage of considering the challenges established schools may face when it comes to educating students in the era of accountability, high stakes academic testing, and college and career preparation.